you continue to miss the whole point. If you read what I said again you will find that my point is that Apple will want to have two suppliers of its chip. If the G3 by IBM scales to 2 Mgz so what.... they still will have one supplier IBM.
Surely the answer to the AMD rumors is obvious. Apple can not be dependent on a single processor supplier. Motorola are rapidly removing themselves from the game. When the IBM 970 comes out the G3 and G4 will be dead within a year. Motorola have no processors to complete and are heading deep into embeded land.
Apple need another supplier so they limit their risk. They maybe getting AMD to fab a PowerPC type chip.
Alternatively....
Maybe they are just going to use AMD64 chips to build 8 and 4 way XServes?
NeXT used to have fat binaries compatibility across NeXT Black hardware, Intel, Sun, HP and Alpha.
Surely the answer to the AMD rumors is obvious. Apple can not be dependent on a single processor supplier. Motorola are rapidly removing themselves from the game. When the IBM 970 comes out the G3 and G4 will be dead within a year. Motorola have no processors to complete and are heading deep into embeded land.
Apple need another supplier so they limit their risk. They maybe getting AMD to fab a PowerPC type chip.
Alternatively....
Maybe they are just going to use AMD64 chips to build 8 and 4 way XServes?
NeXT used to have fat binaries compatibility across NeXT Black hardware, Intel, Sun, HP and Alpha.
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you continue to miss the whole point. If you read what I said again you will find that my point is that Apple will want to have two suppliers of its chip. If the G3 by IBM scales to 2 Mgz so what.... they still will have one supplier IBM.
IBM - G3 DEAD
MOTO - G4 DEAD
IBM 970 - ALIVE
equals one supplier IBM.
Apple need another supplier so they limit their risk. They maybe getting AMD to fab a PowerPC type chip.
Alternatively....
Maybe they are just going to use AMD64 chips to build 8 and 4 way XServes?
NeXT used to have fat binaries compatibility across NeXT Black hardware, Intel, Sun, HP and Alpha.
Anthony
Apple need another supplier so they limit their risk. They maybe getting AMD to fab a PowerPC type chip.
Alternatively....
Maybe they are just going to use AMD64 chips to build 8 and 4 way XServes?
NeXT used to have fat binaries compatibility across NeXT Black hardware, Intel, Sun, HP and Alpha.
Anthony